yesterday afternoon the sentries, behind a "choya? de fuse," were on the crossing slope well to the west of the British post With them were two "Ta Tao"
Chinese policemen, carrying sidearms only, seated on chairs. These two men helped to examine the loads carried by an endless line of farmers bringing in fresh vegetables and other produce.
Facing the Japanese on the east was the French outpost with barbed-wire barricades flung across two-thirds of the road, an armoured car drawn up on the north side and opposite, fresh barbed-wire, heavily tangled, stretching as far as the eye could see in the direction of Siccawei The Siccawei sector itself showed considerable activity on the part of the French military. French soldiers have now taken up a station at}
That Sunday night's guerilla fighting was centred at Lunghwa and southern Nantao was fairly well established yesterday by a comparison of various foreign "ear-witness" reports. The shooting lasted from about midnight to 4 a.m, but was especially heavy between "midnight and 1 o'clock. Residents in the southern part of the French Concession were awakened by lively rifle and machinegun fire, interspersed with the heavier reports of trench mortars and artillery. Indications were that an unusually large body of guerillas participated in the fighting. It was impossible, however, to estimate the losses on either side.
At Siccawei, to where on one cent occasion guerilla fighting ca so close that a ricochet bullet ent ed a foreign priest's bedroom while he was asleep, yesterday mornii "battle" could be heard only faint The shooting was described as bein well to the east of Siccawei
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